Form Quote by William Maxwell

Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.

— Alice Munro

“[Memory]... is a system of near-infinite complexity, a system that seems designed for revision as much as for replication, and revision unquestionably occurs. Details…

— John Daniel

What we, or at any rate what I, refer to confidently as memory--meaning a moment, a scene, a fact that has been subjected to…

— William Maxwell

“What we, or at any rate what I, refer to confidently as memory - meaning a moment, a scene, a fact that has been…

— William Maxwell

Memory is a code to who we are, a collection of not just dates and facts but also of epic emotional struggles, epiphanies, transformations.

— David Grann

Memory is a fiction we tell ourselves: just a piece of the truth.

— Chelsea Cain

Memory is an act of meaning-making. It collects the disparate pieces of our lives and distills them.

— Rebecca McClanahan

Memory plays tricks. Memory is another word for story, and nothing is more unreliable.

— Ann-Marie MacDonald

Memory narrativises itself.

— Aleksandar Hemon

I like the idea all memory is fiction, that we have queued a couple of things in the back of our minds and when…

— Steven Tyler

“Memory is an imaginal constellation of past and present that generates a new experience. Memory is not the storing of the past, but the…

— Louisa Thomsen Brits

“Memory's truth, because memory has its own special kind. It selects, eliminates, alters, exaggerates, minimizes, glorifies, and vilifies also; but in the end it…

— Salman Rushdie